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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
DID NOT FINISH: 33%

Difficult to understand because Kendi tried to read the prose like it was poetry, inserting odd pauses and emphases. 

This is just one instance in which we caught him destroying his own argument and holding forth when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about:
Just listening to chapter 7 of How to be an AntiRacist and the author has just gone off about how it’s racist that Ebonics is considered a dialect of English or broken English when English isn’t considered a dialect of Latin or broken German. Hold up there, mister! That’s linguistics, not racism! And just a few sentences ago you literally said Ebonics is like Creole or other patois, and guess what “broken Language” is a derogatory synonym for? Patois! And what are patois defined as linguistically? Dialects! You just borked your own argument!